Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard
On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, wrote: > March 1, 2023 5:11 AM, "Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh" wrote: >> Yes, please, I am interested. >> I would use it for PowerEL, LibreBMC and LibreSOC. >> All open source projects. >> Is this just a board or also a CPU? > > It is just the motherboard. :) so someone has to spend maybe an additional... USD... 1000? 2000? to get it into a useful state. minimum 128 GB preferably a lot more than that (in order to host multiple VMs), plus SSDs / HDDs, plus a minimum 1,000 watt power supply. > donate to the university of Oregon, whose contact is Toshaan Bharvani. ah no. Two SEPARATE options: * donate to University of Oregon, whose contact is Sameer Shende, and if they agree they can add it to the multiple POWER9 systems which are already available to FOSS Groups through the OpenPOWER Hub, have been for a few years now. * donate to Vantosh Ltd, whose contact is Toshaan Bharvani, who already also hosts POWER9 systems for FOSS Projects (Libre-SOC in particular), and who is the maintainer of the PowerEL distribution. l. -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard
On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, wrote: > Hello you fabulous developers! > > My friend has a spare Talos II motherboard that is currently sitting in his house > in Indiana USA collecting dust. > > https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ > > I have convinced him to donate/sell it to an open source project or developer. > > I reached out to Richard Stallman, and he agreed to take the board. I am certain that the > FSF would put it to good use. My friend and I have not yet decided, to whom we will give > the motherboard. Is it possible that I could give it to someone or project, such that all > parties here would benefit? i am reasonably certain that Toshaan Bharvani would be prepared to do that although he would need to speak for himself. the other option would be to donate it to the University of Oregon who already have POWER9 systems that are accessible to FOSS projects via the "OpenPOWER Hub". cc'ing Sameer as well. (in case that wasn't clear: FOSS projects can *already*, right now, apply for access to POWER9 systems, do i have that right, Sameer?) > Is there any project or developer here that would be willing to take this motherboard and create > virtual machines that other projects could have access to? > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Joshua Branson > FOSS enthusiast > https://gnucode.me > > -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
